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Presidential Task Force on Children’s Environmental Health and Safety to Convene Whitman, Thompson Co-Chair First Meeting October 24 in Washington

Release Date: 10/23/2001
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United States
Environmental Protection Agency (1703)
Communications, Education, And Media Relations



Press Advisory

On Wednesday, October 24, the executive leadership of an interagency task force on children’s environmental health and safety will hold its first meeting under the Bush Administration- and the first since the reauthorization of the task force. The task force will review environmental threats to children’s health, evaluate the effectiveness of programs to address these threats, and make recommendations for improvements.

Following the meeting, the co-chairs of the task force will hold a media availability to discuss the task force and ongoing administration efforts to coordinate federal efforts to protect the nation’s children from potential environmental health and safety hazards. Secretary Mel Martinez, Department of Housing and Urban Development, will also attend the availability to announce new lead prevention grants.

Members of the executive leadership of the task force include co-chairs Christie Whitman, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Tommy Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services. Other members include: John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Department of Justice; Ann M. Veneman, Secretary, Department of Agriculture; Elaine L. Chao, Secretary, Department of Labor; Mel Martinez, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary, Department of Transportation; Spencer Abraham, Secretary, Department of Energy; Rod Paige, Secretary, Department of Education.

Other members include: Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Director, Office of Management
and Budget; Larry Lindsey, Director of the National Economic Council; R. Glenn Hubbard, Chair, Council of Economic Advisors; James Connaughton, Chair, Council on
Environmental Quality; John H. Marburger, III, Assistant to the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Ann Brown, Consumer Product Safety Commission; John Bridgeland, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
2:45 p.m. Media Availability with Co-Chairs of Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children
HUD Lead Grant Announcement- Secretary Mel Martinez
Green Room
Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

NOTE: Entrance to the EPA for the media avail is to the left (as if one was coming up the escalator) at the metro entrance for the Blue Line’s Federal Triangle stop.


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